Trusting God and Trusting Science
Trust in science forms within religious communities through relationships with trusted people, not through better messaging alone.
The field, mapped
Four disciplines
- Psychology
- Theology
- Religious studies
- Philosophy
36
open questions
and five tensions
One organizing idea
Critical trust
Critical trust is the organizing idea, warranted and watchful trust between blind deference and reflexive rejection. Read the findings →
A research project that asked a sharper question than the usual one: how trust in science forms and fails inside religious communities. The project produced a map of a field, and this site makes it public.
Start here
For researchers
Thirty-six open questions and five unresolved tensions, mapped across four disciplines.
Open Questions
For the main takeaways
Six findings and the one idea that organizes them, critical trust.
What We Learned
For background
Why the conflict story is real in a few places and misleading as a whole.
The Problem
Knowledge is made together. No single discipline produces it alone.
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31scholars
4disciplines
6workshops
15volume chapters
3literature reviews
36open questions